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5 Things We Learned: Newcastle United 3 – 0 Manchester United

Stretford End Arising — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:34:47 +0000

By Thomas Doyle. 1. Phil Jones is not a superstar just yet While Jones has rightly been gaining plaudits for a series of impressive displays this season, it is undoubtedly clear that he is still an extremely raw centre-back. He is only 19, and could not have envisaged playing this much football this early on [...]

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5 Things We Learned: Manchester United 2-3 Blackburn Rovers

Stretford End Arising — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:47:27 +0000

By Matt Wrafter. The 9 games following the 6-1, Manchester United kept seven clean sheets and only conceded two goals. After a series of one-nils, we bounced back into dazzling form with a 4-1 over Wolves, a dominant 2-0 win over QPR and two subsequent 5-0 victories over Fulham & Wigan. Following the Wigan game, [...]

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Spoilt Or Cynical?

Stretford End Arising — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:46:59 +0000

By Gary Fowler. Last week Roy Keane’s blunt assessment that Manchester United had not been good enough to progress in the Champions League brought back memories of November 2005 when he castigated some of his team mates following the 4-1 defeat to Middlesbrough. Even though at the time I 100% agreed with him I thought it [...]

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Can United Survive Their Midfield Crisis

Stretford End Arising — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:15:43 +0000

By Zac Stott A spurt of midfield injuries has left Sir Alex scratching his head. Recent injuries to Tom Cleverley and Anderson has left numbers in the middle of the park dwindling and calls for Sir Alex to make some January signings have been strongly advised. Sir Alex swept aside these rumours in his weekly [...]

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Manchester United 1 Sunderland 0: 5 Things We Learnt

Stretford End Arising — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:30:04 +0000

By Nathan Thomas. 1. Midfield craving creative spark This, I’m sure you’ll agree with me is the most evident thing that we learnt from the match on Saturday, although many would argue we have known this for a long time. Beating Sunderland via an own goal from one of our greatest servants is nothing to [...]

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Twenty Five Years Of Fergie

Stretford End Arising — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:00:22 +0000

By Iain McCartney. It certainly does not seem like twenty five years since Aberdeen lost their coveted manager to Manchester United. Mind you, it doesn’t seem like that I have been married for twenty-six years, but that is another story! If the Aberdonians found the departure of their manager hard to take, then those of [...]

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How To Solve A Problem Like Danny Welbeck

Stretford End Arising — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:40:59 +0000

By Ryan Cargill. With Manchester United sitting pretty at the top of the Barclays Premier League table, boss Sir Alex Ferguson has a welcome headache with the form of 20 year-old striker Danny Welbeck. Longsight-born Welbeck has bagged five goals in eight games for United this season, including a brace on his full UEFA Champions [...]

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Is Carlos Tevez the only one to have lobbed his toys out of the pram?

Stretford End Arising — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:05:34 +0000

By Shamoon Hafez. After seeing, and raising a wry smile at, what’s kicked off across the city with our former frontman Carlos Tevez, it led me to think how the fans would react if one of our players performed in such a manner. Almost every home game, Old Trafford is packed to the rafters with [...]

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The Not-So-Maybe Transfer Saga of Wesley Sneijder

Stretford End Arising — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:23:41 +0000

By Lee Savery. Every summer, Manchester United are linked with every “top” player in the world. Every summer, there is always at least one particular name that dominates the rumour mills and back pages for the whole duration of the transfer window. For this particular it has been all about or all not about, Inter [...]

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Wes Brown joins Sunderland

Stretford End Arising — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:15:28 +0000

Contribution by Lee Savery Sunderland have completed the signing of Wes Brown from Manchester United for an undisclosed fee. The defender has signed a four year contract and is Sunderland’s fifth summer signing. Wesley Michael Brown. Born in Longsight, Manchester on 13th October 1979. He dreamed of being a footballer. He dreamed of playing for [...]

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